While
the Democrat commissars and their Republican servants do their level best
to turn America into a third-world basket case, a few of the shadier characters
in our government aim to give us a new, “progressive” Constitution
by the year 2020.

The
principals in this scheme are Cass Sunstein; his wife, Samantha Power;
and Attorney General Eric Holder: the whole thing funded by, of course,
George Soros. (See Aaron
Klein’s article.)

Sunstein
is the president’s “regulatory czar”—betcha can’t
find that title in the Constitution! Samantha Power is on the National
Security Council, and the brains, if that’s the word for it, behind
the kinda-sorta war in Libya. Holder’s most notable contribution
to the republic is his decision not to prosecute Black Panther Party thugs
for scaring white voters away from several polling places.

Since
2005 this trio has been advocating for a new Constitution, to be stealthily
imposed, piece by piece, not by any Constitutional convention, or elections,
but by a series of rulings by wacko judges. To make it palatable to the
American people, Czar Sunstein has proposed a new Bill of Rights. Out
with the old, in with the new!

Examining
the czar’s new Bill of Rights is instructive. Let’s have a
look at it, item by item.

One,
“The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or
shops or farms or mines of the nation.” Sounds nice! Everybody gets
a good job, guaranteed.

From
who? Who is going to do all that hiring? Try to guess.

Two,
“The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing
and recreation.” I can see it now. What “Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity” was to the French Revolution, “Food, Clothing,
Recreation” will be to Mr. Sunstein’s. How could the critical
human need for recreation, equal to the need for food or clothing, have
eluded us for all those centuries? We’ll have to rewrite the Holy
Scriptures. “I was hungry, and you fed me; naked, and you clothed
me; just kinda hangin’ around, and you took me to the movies.”

We all
have a right to “earn enough”—from who? Who is going
to be this universal paymaster? And who’s going to decide what is
“enough”?

Three,
“The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return
that will give him and his family a decent living.” By “return”
they mean “price”; and they are proposing that the government,
not the market, set prices for everything produced by farmers. That worked
really well in the old Soviet Union, didn’t it? I mean, how can
you possibly go wrong with a couple of party hacks in a cellar of the
White House setting millions of different prices?

Four,
“The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an
atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies
at home and abroad.” It’s always so much nicer to be dominated
by the government. Let some unelected czar decided what competition is
fair or unfair.

Five,
“The right of every family”—don’t even ask him
what a “family” is!—“to a decent home.”
Hey! Didn’t we already try this, not too long ago? And didn’t
it lead to the implosion of the housing market, and bank failures all
over the place? Didn’t those banks have to be bailed out, contributing
massively to the debt crisis in which we’re mired today? But of
course it’s bound to work much better the second time around. You
have Cass Sunstein’s word on it.

Six,
“The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to enjoy
good health.” Is anybody keeping track of the cost of this so far?

Seven,
“The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old
age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.” Is this a political
program, or a lullaby? Seriously—who’s going to protect us
from the slings and arrows of what used to be called “life”?
Is there enough money in the whole world to pay for such all-encompassing
security?

Well,
they can always smack us with a 100% tax rate. But even that might not
do the trick.

Eight,
“The right to a good education,” as provided by the teachers’
unions. Don’t expect this “good education” to confer
upon its recipients the ability to recognize pure B.S. shoveled at them
by the government. By “good education” they mean, in fact,
a bad education.

What
we are talking about here is a proposal that the government remove all
uncertainty from life. The government will guarantee your job, your food,
clothing, and recreation, a good price for your crops if you’re
a farmer, a wonderful business climate so you don’t have to worry
about “unfair competition” from anyone who’s better
at it than you, a home of your own, your health, your education, and your
protection from the vicissitudes of ordinary life. That’s all. Note
they don’t promise you sweet dreams and an attractive personality.
There’s only so much a government can do.

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In this
we peer into the chaotic depths of the progressive mind, and find there
a determination to consign the American people to eternal infancy. All
the things we used to do for ourselves, in the normal course of life,
sometimes with help from our families or churches, Czar Sunstein proposes
that the state do for us. This is a bill of rights for idiots: for those
idiotic enough to believe in such drivel, and for those who will turn
into idiots if they are ever compelled to live under such a system. But
they’ll all turn into paupers first.

Maybe,
come 2020, we’ll have to change the words of America the Beautiful:
“And crown thy good with toddlerhood, from sea to shining sea.”

Lee Duigon,
a contributing editor with the Chalcedon Foundation, is a former newspaper
reporter and editor, small businessman, teacher, and horror novelist.
He has been married to his wife, Patricia, for 34 years. See his new
fantasy/adventure novels, Bell Mountain and The Cellar Beneath the Cellar,
available on www.amazon.com